Police in Mexico say a Canadian man has been arrested there in connection with the killing of a Canadian woman.
CBC NewsKiara Agnew, 23, was found dead in Mexico on Friday by local authorities. A Canadian man is being held in connection with her death.
Mexican prosecutors said the woman was found dead Friday at a hotel, but did not name the man or the hotel. The victim's family later confirmed that she was Kiara Agnew, 23, of Dawson Creek in northeast B.C.Prosecutors said the death occurred in the Mayan Riviera, the stretch of coast south of Cancun. Local media said it happened at a hotel in the resort town of Playa del Carmen.
"I didn't want it to be true — I still don't want it to be true," Agnew's aunt Katlyn Levesque told CBC News. "It's being tried as a potential femicide."from a Mexican police force stated that a foreign national is being investigated for the crime of femicide, in a community within the Mayan Riviera.
"Consular officials are providing consular assistance to the families and are in contact with local authorities," said spokesperson Marilyne Guèvremont. "Due to privacy considerations, no further information can be disclosed."According to Agnew's aunt Katlyn Levesque, the 23-year-old grew up in the New Brunswick village of Plaster Rock and moved to Dawson Creek when she was a teenager. She was in Mexico with her boyfriend at the time of her death.
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